Certica (Now a part of Instructure)
Overview
- Overview
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Instructure Elevate Data Quality, formerly Certify by Certica Solutions, is a K–12 data-validation platform that runs maintained business rules against student information and state-reporting data. It identifies missing, conflicting, illogical, or out-of-range records and delivers role-specific results to the district and school staff responsible for correcting them.The platform turns data cleanup into a recurring operational process rather than a last-minute reporting exercise. Daily scorecards, notifications, rule explanations, trends, and state-specific libraries help districts prioritize errors, monitor progress, improve the reliability of funding and accountability submissions, and maintain confidence in information used for decisions. Current 2026 release notes confirm that Elevate Data Quality remains active.
Elevate Data Quality — guide and resources
Features
- Features
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Continuous validation
- Runs scheduled rules against supported SIS data and district-supplied state-reporting files.
- Separates likely data errors from informational alerts or early-warning conditions.
Rule libraries
- Provides maintained rules covering demographics, enrollment, attendance, programs, discipline, accountability, and other configured domains.
- Includes state-reporting libraries for supported states, including California, plus district-authored rules and prescriptions.
Role-specific scorecards
- Shows each user the violations assigned to their school, program, or area of responsibility.
- Allows authorized staff to drill from a rule summary to the records requiring research or correction.
Notifications and progress
- Sends notifications containing rule counts and secure links rather than student details in email.
- Uses certification scores, severity levels, and trends to track improvement and remaining workload.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/Instructure
Certica (Now a part of Instructure) Privacy Policy:
https://www.instructure.com/policies/marketing-privacy
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
Yes
Company News
- Company News
The Certify Rule Library™ is Certica's collection of 160 data validations and alerts which have been gathered from school district implementations of Certify nationwide. The rules, organized by subject area, represent the most widely used, top-priority data validations and alerts applied to data in district information systems – to ensure accurate calculation of FTE/ADA, demonstrate accountability and maximize funding.
What is Certify?
Certify™ is Certica's hosted data validation service, which provides districts with an easy, cost-effective method for automatically validating and monitoring data on a daily basis. Certify ensures that student, school and district data are complete, accurate and up-to-date, by providing an easy and streamlined process.
Using Certify, district and school staff – such as registrars, attendance clerks and administrative staff – are alerted each day of specific data "rules" which are in error, so staff can take action to research, reconcile or correct data in their student information system. District staff can monitor data across groups of schools – whether for a specific program (such as English Language Learning), for a particular compliance area (such as Discipline), or across the entire district.
Certify can help your district:
- Ensure that district administrators make informed decisions and have a greater degree of confidence in data;
- Automate and streamline the process of data monitoring, validation and correction, which saves time and minimizes the resources necessary to achieve and maintain high quality data;
- Enable school and district staff to take a more pro-active role in managing data, reducing the impact on information technology resources;
- Maximize state and federal funding – and reduce the chance of penalties and audits – by reporting accurate and complete data in a timely manner; and
- Institutionalize a proactive process that helps maintain data quality on a continuous basis.
Note: SDLA does not endorse or resell any products listed on the site. They are listed simply to aid in the development of integration resources for school district ed-data leaders.